Biography:
Prof Irvin Noel Booysen graduated in 2010 with a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Nelson Mandela University. Subsequently, he was hosted as a postdoctoral fellow at the Nanotechnology Innovation Centre of Rhodes University. He is an Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Prof Booysen’s research focuses on Bio-inorganic chemistry and electrochemical sensor development. In addition, he has been awarded several competitive research grants, such as the Republic of South Africa Medical Research Council, the Jamaica-RSA Bilateral, and Nuclear Technologies in Medicine and the Biosciences Initiative (NTeMBI) research grants.
Title : Anti-amyloid aggregation and anti-hyperglycemic activities of ruthenium uracil Schiff base compounds and their chitosan-polyvinyl alcohol electrospun nanofiber conjugates